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APPLICATION FILED APR. 30. I 9I7.

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Patented July 17, 1917.

Application led April 30, 1917. Serial No. 165,596.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, PAULINA OWsIAx, a subject of the Emperor of Austria, residing at Fall River, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Washboilers, of which the following is a specification.

rlhis invention relates to clothes boilers and has special reference to a clothes boiler provided with means for making the circulation of the detergent fluid and steam through the clothes being washed.

One important object of the invention is to improve the general construction of devices of this character.

A second important object of the invention is to provide an improved form of screen and distributing devices for use in connection with clothes boilers.

With the above and other objects in view, as will be hereinafter apparent the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and specilically claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and

Figure 1 is a plan view of a clothes boiler constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the distributing screen.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3--3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the intersection of certain supporting ribs having baffles connected thereto.

ln the form of the invention herein illustrated there is provided a clothes boiler having the side wall 10 and bottom 11, the boiler being of the usual elongated form. Spaced above the bottom of this boiler is a removable plate 12 which is held parallel to the bottom by means of partition strips 13 intersecting each other at right angles and extending along the major and minor axes of the boiler. These strips have extending at right angles thereto crenelated baiile strips 14, the bale strips at one end of each of the strips 13 being directed oppositely to those at the other end as can be clearly seen from an inspection of Fig. 2. Moreover the crenelations in the strips 14 are arranged to lie in spaced relation to both the plate 12 and bottom 11 as seen in Figs. 3 and 4. Between the strips 14 the strips 13 are provided with circulation notches 15 which open downwardly and thus permit fluid to flow in any direction along the bottom of the boiler. .The plate 12 is provided with a multiplicity of perforations 16 and has at each end a lifting handle 17.

Now when the boiler is placed over a iire it will be seen that the steam bubbles, formed on the bottom, will pass upward through the water and striking the crenelated strips will be scattered all over the plate 12 to pass up through the openings 16 and thus the rising steam and streams of water passing up and down will be distributed throughout the entire mass of clothes held on the plate 12, whereby all of the clothes will be exposed thoroughly to the detergent.

There has thus been provided a simple and efficient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that many minor changes may be made in the form and construction of the invention without departing from the material principles thereof. It is not therefore desired to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described,

but it is wished to include all such forms as properly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

right angles to each other, said strips being the bottom of the boiler and the perforated provided With notches in their lower edges plate. 10 and forming supports for the perforated In testimony whereof I aix my signature. plate, and spaced crenelated baffle strips eX- 5 tending from the partition strips at right PAULINA OWSIAK angles thereto, said bale strips extending Witnesses: in opposite directions from the opposite JAN PUoz, ends of the partition strips and spaced from MAUnJ SKRzYrIEc.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for iive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

